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Smart ALEC

Language from Arizona's act was adopted as a model by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a "nonpartisan public-private partnership of America's state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public" that espouses "free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty."16
ALEC is coordinating a state-level effort to resist aspects of the current federal health care reform proposal.17

ALEC's Health and Human Services Task Force has one chair and three committee members from each of the private and public sectors, for a total of eight members. Each of the four private-sector members represents a major health care organization.18
Chair Julie Corcoran (private sector) represents Bayer Healthcare. The three committee members are Jeff A. Buel of Johnson & Johnson, Joan M. Gardner of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and Michael J. Wright of Hoffman-LaRoche. The health care industry is well-represented on ALEC's Private Enterprise Board, as well: John del Giorno of GlaxoSmithKline serves as board secretary. Jeff Bond of PhRMA and William Smith of Pfizer, Inc. also sit on the board.19
In total, these organizations and their affiliates gave $11.3 million over the six-year period in the 14 study states. In 2008 alone, the organizations gave $3.7 million.

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This Report in the News

A new report by the National Institute on Money in State Politics (NIMSP) showed that significant money was spent by health interests to pass a constitutional amendment in 14 states, including New Mexico, which would allow the state to opt out of any public health plan enacted by the federal government. Read the full article HERE.

Coloradans will likely be asked in November to blunt the impact of federal health-insurance reform with a state constitutional amendment that would attempt to undo some of what Congress is trying to pass. Read the full article HERE.

The libertarian-leaning Independence Institute is already at work on a state constitutional amendment that would block some of the proposed federal health care reforms, reports Jessica Fender at the The Denver Post. Read the full post HERE.

Chattanooga Times Free Press 01/03/2010A Strategy To Wreck Reform

While Senate and House leaders work to reconcile a final, single version of their health care bills, the Republican opposition is preparing for the next round of battle. Read the full article HERE.

Herald Tribune 01/04/2010State Of Sabotage

You didn't expect the health-care industry to let reform succeed without a fight, did you? While Congress struggled this year to cobble together a historic health-care reform plan, industry lobbyists were hard at work at the state level, seeking to sabotage some of the plan's key elements. Read the full article HERE.

Did You Know?

Organizations that reaped $7.6 billion in ARRA contracts had given $47.4 million to state candidates and committees in 2008.